Mary Roberts Rinehart

Name: Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

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“Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond”, published in 1908, is a work by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It explores elements such as Carothers, Stevenson and nurse.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ He remembered the night she taught Marjorie her baby-prayer. God, what kind of a fool, what kind of a beast, had he been?
After a while some one touched him on the shoulder. It was a strange nurse, with a hypodermic-tray in her arms.
“Let me pass,” she said. “Hurry, please;” but still Carothers barred the door.
“How is she?” he gasped, his throat dry and rasping.
“I don't know,” the nurse said evasively. “Let me pass, please.”
“Not until you answer my question. Has she—has she a chance? She isn't dying, is she? You can tell me that much, anyhow!” ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ The doctor ran his fingers nervously through his thick gray hair. “Billy, you have never been ill, that I can remember.” Carothers looked at him silently. “You have never been ill, and you have a morbid shrinking from illness in others. You needn't deny it; I know. It's a family characteristic. Did it never occur to you, that night when you refused to allow Alice to explain—did it never occur to you to imagine—the truth?” ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ The nurse consulted the watch in the broad band of her apron.
“He will be here very soon,” she said, and went on with her writing.
Carothers paced the room, his hands in his pockets. Finally he stopped near the desk.
“I don't know how you women stand it here,” he said. “I haven't been here fifteen minutes, and I feel as if the walls were closing in on me. It seems like a huge piece of machinery, with about as much feeling. They feed people into the wheels and cogs, and grind off an arm or an appendix—I suppose I'm nervous. It's hot to-day, and this smell of drugs knocks me out.” ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ Then he held out the watch to the other man. “You have seen her lately, doctor,” he said hoarsely. “Is—is she much changed? They grow so fast at that age, you know.”
He was watching the doctor with wistful eyes. Hilliard looked critically at the picture.
“Yes, she's like that,” he said. “She's like her mother.”
Carothers groaned under his breath and went to the window. All the beaten-down, fought-out emotion of the last two months was coming back, smothering and choking him. If he could only have shrieked or stormed! But here, in this quiet place—
“SHE ISN'T DYING, IS SHE? ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ Carothers's hat had dropped from his hand and lay unnoticed on the floor. His world seemed to have slipped from under his feet suddenly, without warning. There was nothing left but a suffering woman, and the injustice of those last bitter months.
“Where is she?” He had groped for the back of a chair and was holding to it. “If she is—is ill—” Then the old doubts came back. “You are absolutely sure?” he asked. “She might tell you that, and—”
“Will you never understand?” the doctor said impatiently. “Isn't there a grain of humanity in you? ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ And she went past, in a cab, with her head on Stevenson's shoulder!”
There were sounds from the other room now—a scraping of chairs and slightly raised voices. The doctor watched the door. When no one came, however, he turned to Carothers.
“You're a queer family,” he said, “you Carotherses. You are money-getters, all of you. Your only intelligence is your financial intelligence. You are all the same. Your mother died before your father would believe she was ill. Your intentions are good, I think, but you lack the finer instincts.”
Carothers picked up his hat. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ Carothers did not resent the tone or the implication.
“You brought me here for something,” he said wearily. “What is it? Some poor devil's will, or what?”
The doctor had been looking over the charts with practised eyes. Now he put them down with almost unnecessary deliberation.
“Billy,” he said gravely, “how long is it since you forced Alice to leave you?”
“DR. STEVENSON WANTS YOU AT ONCE. THE PATIENT IS SINKING UNDER THE ANESTHETIC”
Carothers stopped his nervous pacing ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, Munsey's Magazine — The Room Beyond (1908)

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1958, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 65 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”

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